Jennifer Keller was called into the long-running litigation over ownership of the ­multibillion-dollar Bratz dolls just weeks before the case was schedule for its second trial (the first having ended in a debacle for that client, MGA Entertainment Inc.) She faced barely contained hostility from the company’s longtime counsel and a grueling trial schedule. “I just figured that the best thing I could do was to immediately show my colleagues what a good trial lawyer I am,” she said. Keller showed them all.

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